spring-clean vs clean house

spring-clean and clean house both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spring-clean	No	No	Yes	No
clean house	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, clean house is a hypernym of spring-clean; that is, clean house is a word with a broader meaning than spring-clean:

spring-clean: thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year
clean house: clean and tidy up the house

Other hypernyms of spring-clean include clean, houseclean.

spring-clean (verb)	clean house (verb)
thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year	clean and tidy up the house